Movimentos de extensão e suas contribuições à melhoria das práticas nas comissões próprias de avaliação - CPAs

Abstract

This text is situated in the context of higher education evaluation policies and aims to identify positive practices and those that need to be improved within the CPAs. Using a qualitative action-research approach based on Participatory Institutional Assessment (PIA), the inter-institutional Extension Project Training cycle: connections and interactions between CPAs in Brazil, was planned and implemented by researchers from UFSM, UFRGS and UFMG and took place virtually between 2022 and 2023. The aim is to answer the following question: can continuous training improve the quality of the committees' work? Using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, it was possible to learn about and compare the similarities, difficulties, challenges and expectations of the actors who took part in the project, who considered the debates that led to self-reflection on what they produce in terms of evaluating higher education in the day-to-day running of the institutions to be very useful.